Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Tony Blair's biographer on Channel 4 news tonight trying to defend his man when questioned about the delay to the Chilcot Enquiry. He looked like a man suffering from a few sleepless nights.

Db4,

Suggest to Andrew Wiggins that he takes a length of string with him to work.

Might save the poor devil an embarrassment.

The report Fred backs up what Andrew Neal said this lunchtime, 4.5 million people unemployed not the sleazy figures the Tories have endorsed today.

The Tory party used to be a decent party, but it is now a sleazy party and so are a lot of its members.

all parties manipulate or interpret statistics to suit their own agenda

The number of people out of work in the UK fell by 58,000 to 1.91 million, its lowest level for more than six years, in the three months to November, official figures indicate.

The unemployment rate now stands at 5.8% of the adult working population, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

In total, there are now 30.8 million people in work.

The ONS said wage growth had also continued to outpace inflation.

In the September to November period, average earnings excluding bonuses were up 1.8% from a year earlier. Including bonuses, earnings rose by 1.7%.

It is the second consecutive month that both measures of earnings growth have been above the inflation rate.

Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, stood at 1% in November and then fell to 0.5% in December as global oil prices tumbled further.


The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in December fell by 29,700 to 867,000, the 26th consecutive monthly reduction, said the ONS.

BULLSHIT.

Notice how he uses CPI instead of RPI aswel.

Ohhhh dear desperate Tory tactics.

The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in December fell by 29,700 to 867,000, the 26th consecutive monthly reduction, said the ONS.

Cynic this tory party do it more than any party in history.

Stupid really because its just losing life long fans.

The unemployment figures and Miliband being a bufoon will win the GE for Cameron!

The ONS figures are dictated by Osbourne he rang the changes.

The figure is 4.5 million unemployed and the Tories are copying the time when Thatcher was in power.

Same OLD TORIES.................. SLEAZY.

Poll shows SNP could win all but four Scottish seats in general election

Labour MPs in Scotland would be reduced from 41 to four while Lib Dems and Tories projected to lose all their seats



Libby Brooks, Scotland reporter


The Guardian, Wednesday 21 January 2015 17.01 GMT



Wee-Eck MkII


A new poll suggests the SNP will almost completely wipe out Labour in Scotland in May’s general election.

The poll for Ipsos Mori gives the Scottish National party a 28-point lead over Labour in Westminster voting intention, projecting 55 seats in Scotland for the nationalists and four for Labour. The Liberal Democrats would lose all their seats and the Tories would lose their one seat, held by the Scotland minister David Mundell.

Following the no vote in last September’s independence referendum, the SNP has seen a surge of support under its new leader, Nicola Sturgeon. A Survation poll for the Daily Record earlier in the week suggested signs of a recovery for Scottish Labour under Jim Murphy with the gap narrowing to 20 points, but it too indicated that the SNP would be in a powerful position in Westminster after May.

Sturgeon has ruled out any form of coalition with the Tories but has previously indicated her willingness to enter into talks with Labour. She told the BBC on Wednesday that she was “instinctively not too enthusiastic” about a formal coalition but tended towards a vote-by-vote deal.



More: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/21/poll-snp-labour-scottish-seats-election

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Max.......... carrying on dreaming.

It looks like Labour could be very short of being the biggest party. Then you have the Greens eating into Labour's share of the vote.

he he he

UKIP Have got Fat Dave over a barrel.

Scottish Labour ‘facing general election disaster’



SCOTTISH Labour are facing political annihilation in May’s general election as a new poll shows support for the SNP staying at 52 per cent



The poll, commissioned by STV and carried out by IPSOS Mori, shows that new leader Jim Murphy is failing to make an impact on voters as the SNP

The survey reveals that Scottish Labour would poll 24 per cent of the vote in Scotland - up just one per cent from a poll commissioned by the broadcaster in October last year.

And the party would be left with just four seats north of the Border: Glasgow North East; Glasgow South West; Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, and Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill.



Support for the SNP remains at 52 per cent, giving the Nationalists a projected 55 seats at Westminster.

And the poll suggests total annihilation for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

All of the Lib Dems’ current seats would be lost, including former leader Charles Kennedy, chief Treasury secretary Danny Alexander and Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael.

The poll shows support for the SNP on 52 per cent; Scottish Labour on 24 per cent; Scottish Conservatives on 12 per cent; Liberal Democrats on four per cent; Scottish Greens on four per cent; Ukip on one per cent and two per cent for ‘others’.

Support for the Conservatives has risen two per cent since October’s poll, while support for the Lib Dems and Greens has fallen by the same amount.




Ukip’s share of the vote drops by one per cent.

The figures, which exclude those unsure of how they will vote in May 2015, were taken from 1001 participants surveyed between January 12 and 19.

They were asked how they would vote if there was a general election tomorrow.

In 2010, Labour received 42 per cent of the Scottish vote, compared to the SNP’s 19.9 per cent.

But Wednesday’s poll numbers suggest that the number of Labour’s Scottish MPs would be greatly reduced - and Jim Murphy would be among those to lose his seat.


LABOUR ARE HISTORY IN SCOTLAND!!!!! LOL!

How will Ed Miliband win over Green voters? By alienating everyone else, probably

The Labour leader's going to try and prove that he's not Red Ed, but Green

So farewell Blue Monday and hello Green Wednesday. Two days ago we had what is officially designated the most depressing day of the year. Today we have what is officially designated the most depressing day of Ed Miliband’s year. So far. Worse is to come.

Westminster is abuzz with a new YouGov survey that gives the Tories a two point lead, and has Labour at its lowest level of support for five years. And it’s all thanks to a surge for Natalie Bennett and the Greens, who are now polling at their own highest level for twenty years.

Of course, it’s only one poll. Except, it isn’t only one poll. Just about every poll over the past few days has shown a spike in support for the Green party. In fact, the shift has been so consistent it has gone from being a “spike” to a “trend”.

So why are the Green’s trending? One obvious reason is the boneheaded decision by the Labour Party and the Lib Dems to start banging on about the debates. That has pulled the Green’s into the spotlight – they have been effectively martyred by the electoral commission’s decision not to grant them major party status – and given them a much needed burst of publicity.

JIM Murphy has stepped up Labour’s pitch to Yes voters, as he compared the SNP to the Conservatives and stated his backing for universal benefits, calling for “a something-for-something society”.



The new Scottish Labour leader has already said the party is as open to supporters of independence as it is to No voters, in an attempt to move on from last year’s referendum.

However, Mr Murphy yesterday attempted to outflank the SNP on the left as he suggested the party’s approach to government was similar to that of the Conservatives at Westminster in some areas.

Mr Murphy called for the Scottish Government to apologise to NHS patients, claiming ministers had broken their own waiting-time law more than 12,000 times.

He said the administration at Holyrood was not on top of a developing “crisis” around NHS waiting times and that SNP ministers were “starting to sound like Tory ministers” at Westminster and should say sorry to every patient not treated within the legal waiting time limit of 12 weeks.

Mr Murphy, speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Politics, went on to state that Yes voters who wanted to defeat the Conservatives in May’s General Election had more in common with Labour than the SNP.

He said: “We have so much in common in the sense of social justice. The referendum is one disagreement, yet there is so much that unites us. A vote for the SNP is a vote that could lead to a Conservative victory.”

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said: “Jim Murphy was all over the place talking about Yes voters - Scottish Labour having joined with the Tories for over two years to ridicule and attack those voting for independence just a few months ago.

“Scottish Labour are clearly in panic mode.” and willing to say anything to win Yes voters - confirming that they simply can’t be trusted.”



LABOUR ARE HISTORY IN SCOTLAND!!!! LOL.